So you know 27,995 which are working without any private publisher in the loop 
and no author/reader fee. 
Laurent 

Le 9 août 2012 à 11:55, Jan Velterop a écrit :

> It's a start. 27,995 or so to go.
> 
> Jan
> 
> On 9 Aug 2012, at 11:43, Laurent Romary wrote:
> 
>> Thanks. Are these all managed on their own?
>> Laurent
>> 
>> Le 9 août 2012 à 11:42, Bo-Christer Björk a écrit :
>> 
>>> Good idea,
>>> 
>>> Here are four such journals, all of which have been there since the 1990s:
>>> 
>>> Information Research
>>> 
>>> Journal of Information Technology in Construction
>>> 
>>> Journal of Electronic Publishing
>>> 
>>> First Monday
>>> 
>>> best regards
>>> 
>>> Bo-Christer Björk
>>> 
>>> Journal of On 8/9/12 11:35 AM, Laurent Romary wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> As an echo to the fourth option mentioned by Peter, I would like to gather 
>>>> references to journals and initiatives which are notoriously community 
>>>> based. Could members of the list point to what they would be aware of? 
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Laurent
>>>> 
>>>> Le 7 août 2012 à 16:11, Peter Murray-Rust a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Sally Morris 
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> We should not delude ourselves; journals can only be 'free' if someone 
>>>>> pays
>>>>> the costs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> All the work involved in creating and running a journal has to be paid for
>>>>> somehow - they don't magically go away if a journal is e-only (in fact,
>>>>> there are some new costs, even though some of the old ones disappear).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can only see three options for who pays:  reader-side (e.g. the 
>>>>> library);
>>>>> author-side (e.g. publication fees);  or 'fairy godmother' (e.g. sponsor).
>>>>> 
>>>>> There is a fourth option, which works: the scholarly community manage 
>>>>> publication through contributed labour and resources and the net amount 
>>>>> of cash is near-zero. This is described in 
>>>>> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/ 
>>>>> where the J. Machine Learning Research is among the highest regarded 
>>>>> journals in the area (top 7%) and free-to-authors and free-to-readers. 
>>>>> There is an enlightening debate (on this URL) between those who run the 
>>>>> journal and Kent Anderson of the Scholarly Kitchen who cannot believe 
>>>>> that people will run and work for journals for the good of the community.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There is no law of physics that says this doesn't scale. It is simply 
>>>>> that most scholars would rather the taxpayer and students paid for the 
>>>>> administration publishing (either as author-side or reader-side) so the 
>>>>> scholars don't have to do the work. And they've managed ot get 10 B USD 
>>>>> per year. If scholars regarded publishing as part of their role, of if 
>>>>> they were prepared to involved the wider community (as Wikipedia has 
>>>>> done) we could have a much more C21 type of activity - innovative and 
>>>>> valuable to the whole world rather than just academia. It would cost 
>>>>> zero, but it would be much cheaper than any current model.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And of course we now have a complete free map of the whole world 
>>>>> (openstreetmap.org) which is so much better than other alternatives that 
>>>>> many people and organizations are switching to it. And, for many years, 
>>>>> it didn't have a bank account and existed on "marginal resources" from 
>>>>> UCL (and probably still does).
>>>>> 
>>>>> But most people will regard this as another fairy tale.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Peter Murray-Rust
>>>>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>>>>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>>>>> University of Cambridge
>>>>> CB2 1EW, UK
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